The Influence of Aristotle on Ethics

Aristotle has been tremendously influential both in his own time and subsequently. Could you outline some of the ways in which he influenced other people? Nebbe could just mention two special periods of revival or renewal of Aristotle in ethics. The first roughly from the 13th to the 17th century, the so-called period of scholasticism. So they looked to Aristotle to overcome some of the false assumptions as they see it that are shared by moralists in the empirical and rationalist traditions.